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Loudoun
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Very little, it turned out. They were not allowed to place a moratorium on building permits, and requests made to the state legislature — to require adequate public facilities, assess developer impact fees, and tie the number of building permits to the county’s ability to take on new debt— were all denied.
Instead, the state legislature and the development community said, in effect, “You already have the tools to control growth if you have the courage to use them”
So they did.
The first step was to revise the Comprehensive Plan to reduce the number of future residential units and improve the quality of life through environmental and historic overlays. The second step was to revise the Zoning Ordinance and the Zoning Map to implement the Comprehensive Plan revisions.
These steps have been accomplished. The Comprehensive Plan was revised in July 23, 2001, and the revised Zoning Ordinance and Remapping were approved on January 6 of this year.
The effects have been to reduce the total housing units from 370,000 in the 1991 General Plan to 162,000, the total population from 1,000,000 to 438,000, and the number of new schools from 184 to 64.
The Revised Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance will change what Loudoun will look like in the long term, but will not change the rate of growth in the near term. Near term growth will continue until most of the backlog of approved houses has been absorbed. In the mean time there is a rush to subdivide and vest.
And almost 300 lawsuits have been filed.
Is Rappahannock County listening?
95.2%